Wimmera
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Wimmera Victoria |
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Mount Arapiles rises above the flat Wimmera plain.
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| Population | 54,645 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 1.302219/km2 (3.37273/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Area | 41,963 km2 (16,202.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| Federal Division(s) | Mallee | ||||||||||||
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The Wimmera is an ill–defined district, sometimes incorrectly referred to as an economic region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range. It can also be defined as the land within the social catchment of Horsham, its main settlement.
Most of the Wimmera is very flat, with only the Grampians and Mount Arapiles rising above vast plains and the low plateaux that form the Great Divide in this part of Victoria. The Grampians are very rugged and tilted, with many sheer sandstone cliffs on their eastern sides, but gentle slopes on the west.
In the context of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, the Wimmera is a sub–region of 2,145,380 hectares (5,301,300 acres) located within the Murray Darling Depression bioregion. The Wimmera is one of the nine districts in Victoria used for weather forecasting by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries defines the district as a 30,000-square-kilometre (12,000 sq mi) region for agricultural production purposes encompassing the Buloke, Hindmarsh, Horsham City, Northern Grampians, West Wimmera and Yarriambiack local government areas.
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